David Patterson Is Going To Suspend His Campaign

Really at this point, the idea of New York Governor David Patterson suspending his campaign should be anything but news.  I mean, for the last few weeks the New York Times has been beating on him like he owed them money, with the news that he helped to suppress a sexual assault beef with one [...]

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Some Words On Haiti

I haven’t posted about the situation in Haiti yet.  This is mostly due to the fact that it’s so unbelievably staggering, that I just have had absolutely no idea what it is that I could say.  The death toll is astronomical, the country is in a state of near-chaos, and so far the global community [...]

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Jay Reatard: 1980-2010

Wow.  I don’t usually find myself too affected by celebrity deaths, but I have to admit that this is really bothering me.  The New York Times is reporting that garage rocker Jay Reatard was found dead in his home today at the age of 29.  I realize that I am just about the last person [...]

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Good News For People Who Like Good TV

Remember back when HBO seemed to have the market cornered when it came to great original programming?  Well, it looks like those days might be returning soon.   Already boasting three of televisions most exciting upcoming premieres in “Boardwalk Empire,” “Treme,” and “The Pacific,” the Home Box Office has shown that they’re not yet satisfied. [...]

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Al Gore Is Fired Up

If you truck your merry self over to Slate than you will find their exclusive interview with former VP, one-time Nobel Prize winner, and general environmental do-gooder Al Gore.  Now, it’s a pretty long and comprehensive interview that covers a whole ton of relevant stuff regarding environmental topics, ranging from the meeting in Copenhagen to [...]

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Eggers Hits the Newsstands

Step right up Dave Eggers!  You’re next in the line of people attempting to revitalize the newspaper industry!  Okay, so maybe the line isn’t quite that long, and Eggers ambitions may not be quite that grandiose, but in a perfect world, revitalizing the industry may just be what he ends up helping to do.  As [...]

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“Treme” Is Starting To Take Form

There’s a nice little feature over at Paste about David Simon’s upcoming show for HBO, Treme. The series, which recently started principal production, is centered around the lives of a group of musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.  Now, Simon can pretty much do no wrong in my eyes, after absolutely knocking his last two series [...]

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Politics and Fiction: A Match Made In Heaven

Over at New York Magazine, they have unveiled a feature that I have to say is just incredibly cool.  The piece is their Political Fictions Project where they invited seven different writers to pen short stories based on seven prominent political figures.  From President Obama to Mitt Romney, nobody is safe from the imaginations of [...]

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It’s Your Chance To Be Sarah Palin!

Ok, so not really.  But still, this is pretty cool, or at least novel.  As a warning before I get to the point of this post, if you are here because you thought that I was being sincere in my title, I can confidently assure you that this blog is not the kind of place [...]

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Matt Drudge, You’re the Worst…

The image above comes from the front page of Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report this morning.  You may wonder, why do I choose to put this up instead of just discussing Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” directly?  Because it perfectly illustrates the two things that most infuriate me most about this latest turn in the wild ride [...]

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